A rural community in northern California is reporting it cannot rely on local police should a crisis hit due to staffing shortages that run so deep in the area that the sheriff’s office has ...

Police staffing across California is at the lowest point in decades, with rural ... California Department of Justice and looked solely at sworn officers, including city police, sheriff’s ...

Four family members, including an infant, who were kidnapped Monday morning from a business in Central ... The sheriff emphasized that the victims were found in an "extremely rural farm area ...